TOP MARITIME WOMEN IN NIGERIA
Funmi Folorunsho
Hitherto, African ship owners
had not been investing in ships
as they had been complaining
of the policies under which
they had been operating. With
Ms. Folorunsho's advocacies,
African governments have
started developing favourable
policies to aid the growth of
the maritime industry.
To Funmi Africa has not been
attractive for ship owners
because policies have made
investment in ships too costly
and cumbersome. Hence she
has been organizing
conferences of African ship
owners and gover nments
aimed at evolving favourable
policies and regulations for
Africa's shipping sector. As
she maintains, “Policies and
laws have made it difficult to
acquire vessels. Financing has
also been a problem for the
investors.”
Hence, Funmi Folorunsho has
been working in partnership
with the maritime industry
regulators to get full benefits
of the industry so as to create
wealth and employment in
Africa.
M
rs. Funmi Folorunsho is a maritime consultant and the
Secretar y-General of Afr ican Ship-owners
Association. She was the pioneer Director-
Funmi Folorunsho as the
General of Indigenous Shipowners Association of
Secretary-General of African
Nigeria (ISAN). She was also the pioneer Executive
Secretary of NIMAREX (Nigeria Maritime Expo) that
Ship-owners Association has
has been showcasing the maritime potentials of
started impacting positively on ship
Nigeria's maritime sector as well as a former
ownership in Africa, as African ship
President of WISTA, Nigeria.
owners have started investing in
ships as a result of the introduction
Funmi Folorunsho as the Secretary-General of
African Ship-owners Association has started
of favourable policies and
impacting positively on ship ownership in Africa, as
regulations that govern the
African ship owners have started investing in ships as a
maritime sector.
result of the introduction of favourable policies and
regulations that govern the maritime sector.
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